Exploring Emotional Extremes and Transformations in Movie Scenes

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Delve into the analysis of movie scenes depicting a character's emotional journey, from realization and involvement in a crime to moments of horror, body horror, and reflections on the impact of television. Witness the transformation and struggles of a character as he tries to escape imprisonment but ultimately faces powerlessness, as well as surreal situations like a hypnotic encounter and a contemplation of suicide with an isolated individual.

David and Tamler dive into the mysteries at the heart of Park Chan-wook’s deeply disturbing masterpiece "Oldboy" (2003). An ordinary man, Oh Dae-su, is imprisoned for 15 years in an old, windowless hotel room. After being abruptly released Oh Dae-su embarks on a mission to discover why he was imprisoned and to get revenge on the man who did it. But does Oh Dae-su really want to know the answers? And is he asking the right questions? (SPOILER HEAVY EPISODE! See this movie before you listen! Available on Netflix in the US.) Plus, how familiar are you with words the words azimuth and espadrille? Turns out that the answer may depend on your gender.

Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior research methods, 51, 467-479.

Oldboy (2003 film) [wikipedia.org]